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disaster capitalism

Posted inEquality, General

Decolonising African prisons: An introduction to neocolonialism

by Casper Lӧtter 19 October 202020 October 2020

The idea of incarcerating people into exiled spaces designed for ‘discipline’ in European society, is the antithesis to ubuntu … but it served the scramble for Africa and Asia well

Posted inMedia, News/Politics

Coronovirus, meaningless numbers, disaster capitalism: Oligarchy’s dream come true

by David Pittaway 11 May 202011 May 2020

Some corporates, some philanthropists, and some governments, the United States in particular, have a vested interest in a global pandemic — and the stats of infection rates and deaths are useful to them.

Posted inEnvironment, Equality, News/Politics

Climate change: We have passed the 11th hour

by Bert Olivier 17 November 2014

In 2007, Leonardo DiCaprio — one of the few so-called celebrities in the world who seems to care about matters ecological — produced a disturbing film on runaway climate change called The 11th Hour, directed by Leila Conners Petersen and Nadia Conners. Like Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth before it, it was a wake-up call, […]

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